2693. 🇬🇧 Monty Python, Mushrooms and Monopoly To Feature On Royal Mail Stamps During 2025. Oh! And Peanuts.

 

2025 New Issue Programmes.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail 

Royal Mail has now released details of the remainder of its 2025 new issue programme -

I take it that the Peanuts issue refers to the American cartoon and not the food. What on Earth is ‘Peanuts’ to do with the Britain and why does it qualify for depiction on a British stamp issue? Note there are now 16 new issues planned. Things are getting worse.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 - 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

Botswana 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon 

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands (including Rarotonga)

Cook Islands (Aitutaki)

Cook Islands (Penrhyn)

Dominica

Falkland Islands 

Gabon 

Ghana

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Jamaica 

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis 

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Nigeria 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

St Kitts or St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia

St Vincent and The Grenadines 

Samoa 

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia

Togo

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tristan Da Cunha 

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, at the end of March, 60 (67.4%) Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or have not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 compared with 76.1% at the end of February 2025 and 63.7% at the end of March 2024.